This recent United Nations Flash Report into the current ethnic cleansing in Myanmar against Rohingya, was a little difficult to find online so I have posted it here. It is one of the most difficult, distressing documents anybody could ever read;

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The testimonies gathered by the team – the killing of babies, toddlers, children, women and elderly; opening fire at people fleeing; burning of entire villages; massive detention; massive and systematic rape and sexual violence; deliberate destruction of food and sources of food – speak volumes of the apparent disregard by Tatmadaw and BGP officers that operate in the lockdown zone for international human rights law, in particular the total disdain for the right to life of Rohingyas.
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The forcible displacement of persons from an ethnic or religious group as a consequence of acts of violence committed against them such as killings, torture, arbitrary detention, rape and sexual violence and the destruction of houses and places of worship has been described in other contexts as ethnic cleansing.47 The information gathered by OHCHR raises serious concerns that what is occurring in nRS is the result of a “purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas”.48 An estimated 66,000 have so far been forced to leave the land they have lived in for generations.

Reporting to the U.N. Human Rights Council on March 13, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee delivered her own findings, describing grave violations by Myanmar state security forces, including the “slitting of throats, indiscriminate shootings, setting alight houses with people tied up inside and throwing very young children into the fire, as well as gang rapes and other sexual violence.” Lee also called upon member states to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the situation in Rakhine State.

I heard allegation after allegation of horrific events like these – slitting of throats, indiscriminate shootings, setting alight houses with people tied up inside and throwing very young children into the fire, as well as gang rapes and other sexual violence. Even men, young and old, broke down and cried in front of me telling me about what they went through and their losses. - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/P....84klqO0L.dpuf

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Reporting to the U.N. Human Rights Council on March 13, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee delivered her own findings, describing grave violations by Myanmar state security forces, including the “slitting of throats, indiscriminate shootings, setting alight houses with people tied up inside and throwing very young children into the fire, as well as gang rapes and other sexual violence.” Lee also called upon member states to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the situation in Rakhine State.

I heard allegation after allegation of horrific events like these – slitting of throats, indiscriminate shootings, setting alight houses with people tied up inside and throwing very young children into the fire, as well as gang rapes and other sexual violence. Even men, young and old, broke down and cried in front of me telling me about what they went through and their losses. - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/P....84klqO0L.dpuf

I have been watching this a little. It is beyond horrendous. An interview with a young mother who's child had her throat slit because she tried to protect her mother from the men who were raping her honestly left me unable to be around people for a bit. I went and hid in the bush.
Which is worse than useless. But I don't know how to help.
How do I help?

Thank you Mandy for thinking about this issue. There is so much inhumanity we need to keep these matters in our consideration and the public consideration.

I think its also important for us to write a letter to our leader too about this. Of course we also should write about other atrocities and the war caused famines in other countries.
However we have recently lifted sanctions against Burma and they need to go back on against the country to show ut we don't accept such murder and genocide.

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"I'm an ape, I'm an African ape and I'm proud of it, and you should be too". Richard Dawkins

I have been watching this a little. It is beyond horrendous. An interview with a young mother who's child had her throat slit because she tried to protect her mother from the men who were raping her honestly left me unable to be around people for a bit. I went and hid in the bush.
Which is worse than useless. But I don't know how to help.
How do I help?

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I'm just a silly old bloke, but what my household can do, we do.

We vote. We inform parties and candidates who don't accept that these people need help, that we will vote and speak against such parties.

If a company organisation is helping, we support them as well as we can. For the opposite, we disapprove publicly, and invite our friends and contacts to do so, too.

Thank you Mandy for thinking about this issue. There is so much inhumanity we need to keep these matters in our consideration and the public consideration.

I think its also important for us to write a letter to our leader too about this. Of course we also should write about other atrocities and the war caused famines in other countries.
However we have recently lifted sanctions against Burma and they need to go back on against the country to show ut we don't accept such murder and genocide.